The international conference and workshop NTCS'99 brought
together theorists working on identifying a "successor" notion of computation-one
that not only respects the classical (and critical) limiting results about
algorithms, grammars, complexity bounds, etc., but that also does justice
to real-world concerns of daily computational practice, and thereby offers
a much better chance of serving as a possible foundation for a realistic
theory of mind. The workshop section focused on the prospects for
developing a theory that takes computing not to be not abstract, syntactic,
disembodied, isolated, and non-intentional, but concrete, semantic, embodied,
interactive, and intentional.